A book series written by Stephenie Meyer that's captured that heart of gazillions of teenaged girls around the world. It's centered around the romance between Isabella Swan (Bella), the awkward new girl in school, and Edward Cullen, a gorgeous vampire she meets. Although the book is pretty addicting, it has to be the worse book i've ever read in terms of originality, clichés, plot, and writing. Cliché #1: The new girl in school who is awkward and clumsy and terrible at everything. How many times have we seen and read this? Cliché #2: The new girl falling in love with the hottest guy in school (Edward). No one saw that coming. Cliché #3: Despite the new girl's awkwardness and plain looks, the hottest guy in school falls in love with her. The epitome of originality, am I right? *sarcasm* Cliché #4: The new girl is hopelessly in love with the hottest guy in school to the point where you want to slap her because she'll do literally everything and anything the hottest guy in school will tell her to do just for him. Cliché #5: The vampire (who is the hottest guy in school), despite his love for the new girl, thirsts for her blood and struggles to control his bloodlust. Wow. Cliché #6: The vampire is a good vampire who doesn't want to hurt humans, so he feeds off of animals instead. *cough* Louis from Interview with the Vampire *cough* Cliché #7: The vampire thinks he's a monster and that the new girl should stay away from him if she values her life, but of course the new girl risks her life to be with him. Cliché #8: The new girl would rather die than not be with the vampire, which is the stupidest thing anyone on this Earth can ever say. Yes, I understand she's madly and hopelessly and stupidly in love with him, but you only get one life. She isn't even considerate of the family members she would leave behind who would mourn her death. There is no plot to the story. It's just a bunch of events that happens between Bella and Edward. The writing in the beginning is so plain, and even though it does get better, it's still not good. There's no figuritive language and not much description. The only thing the author seems to describe is Edward's appearence. Every other freaking sentence is talking about this muscular arms or smile or face or eyes or hair. It's like she created this book to produce a bazillion teenaged fangirls who are obsessed with Edward and don't care about the rest of the story. There really is nothing original about this book. Nothing that the author has come up with on her own. It's pretty much your cliche vampire romance novel. Despite all this, I still love it because it's addicting, but terrible.

The worst part of it is that you don't want to be mad at him, and you certainly don't want him to be mad at you, but it kind of just... happened. You can't help the fact that you're sending him mixed signals, flirting with him during lessons and during patrols sometimes, but still saying 'No' every time he asks you out. And you wish you could say yes, he doesn't know how much you do, but you always say no, either from force of habit or your own stubborn pride, you don't quite know which. So the no just slips out, every single time, and every single time you have to face these sullen, silent patrols afterward with the both of you sulking and the both of you wishing that one oh-so-significant word had been three letters instead of two. Until the next day, or the day after if the rejection was particularly bad, you start up your tentative flirting again, with the small smiles and lingering touches. Then finally he says those damned words again, and you say yours, and the cycle continues, both of you cursing you to hell and back, neither of you quite meaning it.

craaaaap.
here I was, all happy to be home sick while not actually sick (I was last night and mum thought it would be best for me to stay home today), and then I took my temperature again, and there it was -_- 98.8 F.
which is honestly total and utter crap, seeing as I don't feel sick.